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Books bring a very special feeling to a place and if you think about it, they also offer nobility. We are major book fans here and up to now, we tried to find interesting storage places for them. Recently we’ve ran across yet another great design for a bookcase. We know you might not remember [...]

Night lights banish the darkness for young (and old) sleepers who wouldn’t dream of going to bed blindly. These 10 off the wall night lights, on the other hand, show what artists and designers can do when they’re not sleeping on the job.

San Francisco designers Mike and Maaike have created a shelf with slots specifically cut to house seven seminal books about power and society. I don’t know how many of you will find this idea useful, because this shelf can hold as you can see only seven books. Called Juxtaposed: Power, the piece is the second [...]

To be honest I hate to see cables all around the house, but with so much electronics in our lives, the cables are an inescapable fact. When wireless electricity will be available all these cable problems will be solved, but who knows when something like this will be available ? Fortunately, there are ingenious people [...]

From architect Manuel Ribeiro, Aveleda’s House is located in Portugal, next to “Bracara Augustae”, an old Roman city. The main idea of the design took its roots from the fact that ancient Roman homes were usually built around a square.  Here is a statement from the designer about this: “We tried to take the [...]

This interesting line of carpets was created by Richard Hutten and exhibited by I+I in Rotterdam, earlier this year. It features rugs with traditional patterns which at a certain point become stretched into regular lines. Here is how the artist came up with the idea for the carpets in the first place: “For the carpet [...]